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      <p>When an error occurs in the Berkeley DB library, an exception is thrown or an
error return value is returned by the interface.  In some cases,
however, the exception or returned value may be insufficient to
completely describe the cause of the error, especially during initial
application debugging.  Applications can configure Berkeley DB for verbose
messages to be output when an error occurs, but it's a common cause of
confusion for new users that no verbose messages are available by
default.</p>
      <p>In the Berkeley DB 4.6 release, verbose messages are configured by default.
For the C and C++ APIs, this means the default configuration when
applications first create <a href="../api_reference/C/db.html" class="olink">DB</a> or <a href="../api_reference/C/env.html" class="olink">DB_ENV</a> handles is as if
the <a href="../api_reference/C/envset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;set_errfile()</a> or <a href="../api_reference/C/dbset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB-&gt;set_errfile()</a> methods were called
with the standard error output (stderr) specified as the FILE *
argument.  Applications wanting no output at all can turn off this
default configuration by calling the <a href="../api_reference/C/envset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;set_errfile()</a> or
<a href="../api_reference/C/dbset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB-&gt;set_errfile()</a> methods with NULL as the FILE * argument.
Additionally, explicitly configuring the error output channel using any
of the <a href="../api_reference/C/envset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;set_errfile()</a>, <a href="../api_reference/C/envset_errcall.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;set_errcall()</a>, <a href="../api_reference/CXX/envset_error_stream.html" class="olink">DbEnv::set_error_stream()</a> or <a href="../api_reference/CXX/dbset_error_stream.html" class="olink">Db::set_error_stream()</a> 
methods will also turn off this default output for the application.</p>
      <p>Applications which configure Berkeley DB with any error output channel should
not require any changes.</p>
      <p>Applications which depend on having no output from the Berkeley DB library by
default, should be changed to call the <a href="../api_reference/C/envset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;set_errfile()</a> or
<a href="../api_reference/C/dbset_errfile.html" class="olink">DB-&gt;set_errfile()</a> methods with NULL as the FILE * argument.</p>
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